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). 0,)23;;1' . . - 2 - (b) The full amount programmed for investigations of existing projects shall be used for that purpose. (c) The full amounts programmed for Alaskan investigations must be expended for that purpose. It is estimated that compliance with these directives would leave considerably less than $1,500,000 for the Bureau to carry on numerous im- portant and widesPread surveys and tn7estigations, together with various types of research work, during the next fiscal year. It should be noted at this point too that the ~3,l15,700 includes $500,000 made aVailable, under the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, for surveys in the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. This money is made available from proceeds arising out of the operation of Hoover Dam and povrer installations at that project. The limitations contained in the report of the House Committee would apply to this investigational fund, designated under the Act known as the Colorado River Development Fund. It is desirable, of course, that any investigation which has been initi- ated should be completed as soon as possible, but it is unrealistic, unwise, discriminatory and detrimental to the Reclamation program in various parts of the West to stop numerous project investigations which are now underway merely because they do not happen to fall within the category of project surveys which are scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1953. Within the funds which are usually made available each fiscal year, it has not been possible for the Bureau of Reciamation to schedule necessary project surveys and investigations for completion in one, two, three or even four years. Generally, the more important ones, needed for a sound program of develop- ment, require more than one or two years to complete. A policy which would confine available funds to investigations which could be completed in one year would result in an unbalanced program; large amounts of money'woUld thus be made available for investigations to a few projects in a relatively limited number of areas of the West, leaving other areas with no investiga- tions, It is neither economical nor compatible with the desirable effort to provide necessary data, surveys and studies for various parts of the West. This, I submit, is neither ~~se nor fair treatment to many states and many projects in the West. As an example 9f the effect of this reduction in investigational funds, considered in conjunction with the directives contained in the report of the House Committee, may I call the Committee's attention to what would happen to the investigational program of the Burea11 of Reclamation in the State of Colorado. The effect in Colorado, no doubt, would be little diff~ ent, except as to details, from that in other sta~es of the West. Colorado's future Reclamation development is largely related to the utilization and further development of the State's share of Colorado River water. Investigations within the natural basin of that part of the Colorado River which lies in the State of Colorado are of extreme importance to detennine present and potential uses in the Western half of the State. Such investigations are definitely related to the future water development program of the State.